"The BSD license forces me to reiterate that license text (AND copyright notices)! How dare they?"

Compared to all of the requirements of the GNU, it's nothing. the GNU is like finding out you built your house with nuclear material.

"(By the way: The end user can use GPL code in proprietary projects - once end users redistribute it, they stop being end users by definition, and only then the GPL requirements kick in)"

If you include GNU software in your proprietary app, the second someone asks for your source code, you must give it to them. Once a user has the code, they can compile it and release it for free (The general view of the OSS community is that software should be free as in beer).

If your application is popular enough, this will happen and you will be forced to either go out of business, move onto another product, or charge for support.

It's okay though. It's just pushed app developers like me to only create web services. The result? the end user pays me a monthly fee and need internet access to use it. It actually makes it much easier for me to predict my future earnings.